SARAH A. SCHRADER www.SchraderBioarchaeology.com Department of Anthropology University of California, Santa Cruz 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 [email protected] Phone: (831) 459-2257, Fax: (831) 459-5900
EDUCATION Ph.D. Purdue University, Anthropology (2013) Thesis: “Bioarchaeology of the Everyday: Analysis of Diet and Activity Patterns in the Nile Valley” Advisor: Dr. Michele Buzon M.S. Purdue University, Anthropology, Distinguished (2010) Thesis: “A Bioarchaeological Investigation of Activity Patterns in New Kingdom Nubia” Advisor: Dr. Michele Buzon B.A. University of California, Santa Barbara, Physical Anthropology, Honors (2006) Thesis: “Comparative Analysis of Stature in California Native Americans” Advisor: Dr. Phillip L. Walker B.A. University of California, Santa Barbara, History, Honors (2006)
ACADEMIC POSITIONS Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz (2014-present) Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Western Michigan University (2013-2014) Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, Purdue University (2012-2013) Research Assistant, Department of Anthropology, Purdue University (2010-2011) Teaching Assistant, Department of Anthropology, Purdue University (2008-2013)
RESEARCH & TEACHING INTERESTS Bioarchaeology, Social theory, Quotidian action, Food and sociality, Identity, Social inequality, Violence, Imperialism, Biocultural anthropology, Osteological indicators of activity, Isotope analysis, Dietary reconstruction, Nubia, Egypt, Northern Africa
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS In Print 2015 Sarah A. Schrader, “Elucidating Inequality in Nubia: An Examination of Entheseal Remodeling at Kerma (Sudan).” American Journal of Physical Anthropology156:192-202. 2014 Sarah A. Schrader, Michele R. Buzon, and Joel D. Irish, “Illuminating the Nubian ‘Dark Age’: A Bioarchaeological Analysis of Dental Non-Metric Traits During the Napatan Period.” Journal of Comparative Human Biology 65(4):267- 280. 2012 Sarah A. Schrader, “Activity Patterns in New Kingdom Nubia: An Examination of Entheseal Remodeling and Osteoarthritis at Tombos.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology 149:60-70.
In Press Michele R. Buzon, Sarah A. Schrader, and Gabriel J. Bowen, “Isotopic Approaches to Mobility in Northern Africa: A Bioarchaeological Examination of Egyptian/Nubian Interaction in the Nile Valley.” In Trans-Sahara: State Formation, Migration and Trade in the Central Sahara (1000 BC-AD 1500), edited by David J. Mattingly. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
In Preparation Sarah A. Schrader, “Activity, Diet, and Social Practice: Addressing Everyday Life in Human Skeletal Remains” Springer, New York; Bioarchaeology and Social Theory Series, (estimated completion June, 2017) Sarah A. Schrader, Michele R. Buzon, and Rachel Shea, “Everyday Life After Collapse: A Bioarchaeological Examination of Activity and Traumatic Injury in Post-Imperial Nubia.” Manuscript to be submitted to American Journal of Physical Anthropology. Sarah A. Schrader, “On the Edge of Empire: An Osteological Examination of Rural Nubian Lifeways in an Egyptian Imperial Frontierspace.” Manuscript to be submitted to International Journal of Paleopathology. Jennifer Long and Sarah A. Schrader, “Osteological Evidence of Difficult Birth: A Possible Case of Palsy from Ancient Nubia.” Manuscript to be submitted to International Journal of Osteoarchaeology.
EXTRAMURAL RESEARCH FUNDING In Review, Wenner Gren Foundation Post-Dissertation Research Grant, “Deconstructing Direct, Structural, and Normalized Violence: A Bioarchaeological Examination of Ancient Nubian Conflict” ($20,000 applied for by Sarah A. Schrader) In Review, National Geographic Society, “Socializing Violence in Ancient Nubia: Connecting Interpersonal Conflict with State Development in the Archaeological Record” ($20,000 applied for by Sarah A. Schrader) 2012 National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant, “Bioarchaeological Analysis of Diet and Activity Patterns in the Nile Valley,” ($19,849 awarded to Sarah A. Schrader and Michele Buzon)
Schrader - CV 2 INTRAMURAL RESEARCH FUNDING 2014 Research Travel Fund, Office of the Vice President for Research, Western Michigan University ($800) 2013 Walter Hirsch Award, Dissertation Research Award, Purdue University ($1,500) 2012 Global Research Synergy Grant, “Identifying Migration: Egyptian Diet and Social Identity in Ancient Nubia,” Purdue University ($10,050) Department of Anthropology, Purdue University ($200) 2011 Purdue Research Foundation Grant, “Archaeology of the Everyday: A Bioarchaeological Approach to Activity Patterns and Diet of Ancient Nubians,” Purdue University ($15,288 awarded to Sarah A. Schrader and Michele Buzon) Department of Anthropology, Purdue University ($200) 2010 Department of Anthropology, Purdue University ($600) 2009 Department of Anthropology, Purdue University ($600)
TEACHING Instructor of Record University of California, Santa Cruz Anth. 110F Biocultural Approaches to Food (Spring 2016, 2015) Anth. 103B Bioarchaeology and Forensics (Spring 2016, 2015) Anth. 102A Human Skeletal Biology (Fall 2015, 2014) Anth. 1 Introduction to Biological Anthropology (Fall 2015, 2014) Western Michigan University Anth. 5550 Bioanthropological Approaches to Food (Spring 2014) Anth. 3410 Cultures of Africa (Spring 2014) Anth. 2500 Introduction to Biological Anthropology (Fall 2013) Anth. 1500 Race, Biology and Culture (Fall 2013, Spring 2014, Summer 2014) Anth. 1500 (online) Race, Biology and Culture (Fall 2013, 2014, Spring 2014, Summer 2014) Purdue University Anth. 212 Culture, Food, and Health (Summer 2013) Anth. 312 Archaeology of Ancient Egypt and The Near East (Summer 2012)
Teaching and Research Assistant Positions Teaching Assistant Anth. 201 Introduction to Archaeology (Fall 2012, Spring 2013) Anth. 204 Introduction to Human Evolution (Fall 2009) Anth. 100 Introduction to Anthropology (Fall 2008, Spring 2009)
Schrader - CV 3 ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELDWORK AND EXPERIENCE Abu Fatima, Sudan (2016, 2015) Tombos, Sudan (2016, 2015, 2013, 2011, 2010) Hannek, Sudan (2015) San Pedro de Atacama, Chile (collaboration with Dr. Christina Torres-Rouff, University of California, Merced; 2015) Canton, New York (collaboration with Dr. Mindy Pitre, St. Lawrence University; 2015, 2016) The British Museum (Spring 2012) Duckworth Laboratory at the University of Cambridge (Spring 2012) Panum Institute at the University of Copenhagen (Winter 2012) Stable Isotopes in Ecology Course and Lab, The University of Utah, Salt Lake City (Summer 2009) Port Anta Archaeological Research and Instruction, Lisbon (Summer 2007, 2008)
AWARDS 2013 Teaching Award, Purdue University, Committee for the Education of Teaching Assistants 2011 Graduate Teaching Certificate, Purdue University, Center for Instructional Excellence 2010 Distinguished Masters Thesis Award, Purdue University, College of Liberal Arts 2006 Distinguished Undergraduate Thesis Award, University of California, Santa Barbara
PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND INVITED LECTURES 2016 Sarah A. Schrader. “Colonial-Indigene Interaction in Ancient Nubia: An Integrative Analysis of Diet, Health, and the Material Record” accepted for podium presentation at the Paleopathology Association’s annual meeting, Atlanta (April 2016) Sarah A. Schrader. “Socializing Violence: Interpersonal Violence Recidivism at Abu Fatima (Sudan)” accepted for poster presentation at the American Association of Physical Anthropologists annual meeting, Atlanta (April 2016) Michele R. Buzon and Sarah A. Schrader. “Life at the Third Cataract During the Napatan Period” accepted for podium presentation at the 12th International Conference for Meroitic Studies, Prague (September 2016)
2015 Sarah A. Schrader “Strontium Isotope Applications in the Nile Valley” invited presentation, Dr. Paul Koch’s lab (October 2015) Sarah A. Schrader and Jennifer Long. “Preliminary Examination of Degenerative Wear in Abu Fatima” poster presentation at the Western Bioarchaeology Interest Group annual meeting, Arizona State University (October 2015)
Schrader - CV 4 Samantha Foraker and Sarah A. Schrader. “Analysis of Kerma Culture: A Study Showing Osteological Indicators of Poor Health from the Abu Fatima Sub- Sample” poster presentation at the Western Bioarchaeology Interest Group annual meeting, Arizona State University (October 2015) Jennifer Long and Sarah A. Schrader. “Examining Childhood Physical Impairment in Ancient Nubia” poster presentation at the Western Bioarchaeology Interest Group annual meeting, Arizona State University (October 2015) Sarah A. Schrader. “Bioarchaeology of the Everyday” invited guest lecture at University of California Merced; School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts (April 2015) Sarah A. Schrader and Michele Buzon. “A Bioarchaeological Assessment of Diet and Dental Health During the New Kingdom/Napatan Transition in Ancient Nubia (Tombos, Sudan)” poster presentation at the Society for American Archaeology annual meeting, San Francisco, California (April 2015)
2014 Sarah A. Schrader. “Identifying Social Inequality: A Bioarchaeological Analysis of Osteoarthritis at Kerma, Nubia,” poster presentation at the Western Bioarchaeology Group annual meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada (October 2014) Michele R. Buzon, Sarah A. Schrader, and Gabriel J. Bowen. “Isotopic Approaches to Mobility in Northern Africa: A Bioarchaeological Examination of Egyptian/Nubian Interaction in the Nile Valley,” podium presentation at the Trans-Sahara Project: State Formation, Migration and Trade in the Central Sahara (1000 BC - AD 1000), University of Leicester, United Kingdom (April 2014) Sarah A. Schrader. “Enacting Egyptian Colonialism: A Comparison of Entheseal Changes Between the C-Group and Pharaonic Samples,” podium presentation at the American Association of Physical Anthropologists annual meeting, Calgary, Alberta (April 2014) Michele R. Buzon, Sarah A. Schrader, and Stuart Tyson Smith. “Mortuary and Paleopathological Analyses of Juvenile Burials at the New Kingdom Site of Tombos, Sudan,” poster presentation at the American Association of Physical Anthropologists annual meeting, Calgary, Alberta (April 2014)
2013 Sarah A. Schrader. “Broaching the Quotidian in the Ancient Past: A Bioarchaeological Perspective on Activity Reconstruction in Nubia,” podium presentation at the American Association of Anthropologists annual meeting, Chicago, Illinois (November 2013) Sarah A. Schrader. “Reconstructing Activity at Kerma: An Entheseal Remodeling Comparison of Sacrificial and Non-Sacrificial Burials,” podium presentation at the Midwest Bioarchaeology and Forensic Anthropology Association annual meeting, Columbus, Ohio (October 2013)
Schrader - CV 5 Sarah A. Schrader. “Investigating Activity at the Third Cataract (Nubia): Entheseal Remodeling at Kerma and Tombos,” podium presentation at the American Association of Physical Anthropologists annual meeting, Knoxville, Tennessee (April 2013) Michele R. Buzon and Sarah A. Schrader. “Isotopic Variation of Geographic Origin and Diet in Upper and Lower Nubia During the Bronze Age: An Examination of the Sociopolitical Effects on Population Composition and Lifeways,” poster presentation at the American Association of Physical Anthropologists annual meeting, Knoxville, Tennessee (April 2013)
2012 Sarah A. Schrader. “Continuity of Entheseal Changes from the C-Group to the New Kingdom in Ancient Nubia,” podium presentation at the Paleopathology in Egypt and Nubia: A Century in Review symposium, London, United Kingdom (August 2012) Sarah A. Schrader. “Activity Patterns in New Kingdom Third Intermediate, and Napatan Period Nubia: A Diachronic Study of Osteoarthritis and Entheseal Remodeling at Tombos,” poster presentation at the American Association of Physical Anthropologists annual meeting, Portland, Oregon (April 2012)
2011 Sarah A. Schrader. “The Horse Discovered at Tombos, Sudan,” podium presentation for the Archaeological Institute of America at the University of Chicago (October 2011)
2010 Zachariah A. Hubbell and Sarah A. Schrader. “The Next Wave: An Introduction to Three-Dimensional Laser Scanning.” Workshop presentation at the Midwest Bioarchaeology and Forensic Anthropology Association, Purdue University (October 2010) Sarah A. Schrader and Michele Buzon. “Investigating Activity Patterns: Osteoarthritis, Vertebral Degeneration and Musculoskeletal Stress Markers in Colonized Ancient Nubia.” Poster presentation at the Society for American Archaeology annual meeting, St. Louis, Missouri (April 2010)
2009 Sarah A. Schrader. “Social Identity in Skeletal Remains: Osteoarthritis and Musculoskeletal Stress Markers in Nubia.” Paper presentation at the Chacmool Archaeological Association annual meeting, Calgary, Alberta (November 2009)
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND SERVICE Student Interns, Katherine Miller, Mollie Peterson, Franklin Norris, Sierra Hinds, Arial Kelly, Jennifer Long, Jennifer Perez, Livia Tran, Samantha Foraker, Leeza Arbiv; Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz
Student Committee Service Katherine Miller, Bachelor of Arts Senior Thesis, Advisor, University of California, Santa Cruz
Schrader - CV 6 Franklin Norris, Bachelor of Arts Senior Thesis, Advisor, University of California, Santa Cruz Erin Bornemann, Doctor of Philosophy, Committee Member, University of California, Santa Barbara “Missing Voices: Integrating Children into the Dialogue of Ancient Egyptian Imperial Expansion on the Nubian Frontier” Jamie Gomez, Master of Arts, Western Michigan University “An Investigation of the Effect of Sex and Race on Rates of Carious Lesions in an Early 1900s Low Socioeconomic Status Sample from the Hamann-Todd Collection” Scott MacPherson, Master of Arts, Western Michigan University “Call Me BigMac: Psychosocial Experiences Before and After Weight Loss Surgery, Body Image and the Recovery of Identity” Brooke Bennar, Grand Rapid Catholic Central High School Science Research Seminar, “The Use of Three-Dimensional Laser Scanners to Quantify the Severity of Musculoskeletal Stress Markers on Humeri Obtained from Tombos”
Professional Service Forbes, reviewer W. W. Norton & Company Publishing, reviewer Current Anthropology, reviewer Quaternary International, reviewer International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, reviewer Surface Topography: Metrology and Properties, reviewer
Professional Societies American Association of Physical Anthropologists, 2007-present; volunteer Society for American Archaeology, 2008-present; volunteer Western Bioarchaeology Group, 2013-present Sudan Archaeological Research Society, 2012-present International Association for Paleodontology, 2010-present Sudan Studies Association, 2010; organizer, volunteer Midwest Bioarchaeology and Forensic Anthropology Association, 2009-present; session chair, volunteer
Departmental Service The Anthropology Society Speaker, University of California, Santa Cruz (2015) Speaker’s Committee, Western Michigan University Faculty (2013-2014) STEMulating Careers, Western Michigan University (2013) Bronco Bash Volunteer, Western Michigan University (2013)
Community Engagement Women’s Academic Engagement Speaker, University of California, Santa Cruz (2015) Introducing Bioarchaeology to Elementary School (2013, 2014) Middle School Career Orientation Volunteer (2014) Department of Anthropology, Purdue University, Community Outreach (2009-2013)
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